ARTEMIS
YEAR
Feb.2022 - Jan.2023
TEAM MENBER
XINGYUE GUO - Interactive Artist, Digital Media Artist
WARREN LI - Interactive Artist(UCL), Product Designer
HE JI - Interactive Artist (UCL), Architecture Designer
CONCEPT
In an age of severe environmental challenges, humans need an anti-anthropocentric perspective on our equal and interdependent relationship with nature. To inspire the public about each human individual's underestimated power to understand our ecosystems, the Artemis project explores a primitive way to build an immersive experience with bionic robots that mimic evolutionary forms to create ecosystems that sense and feedback on environmental change.
Over 100 years ago, Darcy Thompson explained natural evolution processes in terms of mathematics and physics, to show that parametric transformations is the basis of ancestral morphological patterns. In this project, we have used parametric design methods to develop a series of automata that share the same mechanistic principle of change. Individual cam mechanisms drive various bionic rhythmic behaviours , such as squirming, waving and sound-making.
Automata are linked to each other and to air detection sensors. Audience is invited to interact with this ecosystem of automata. The impact of the audience on the air metric data in space will have varying degrees of influence on the mechanics of the ecosystem. The connection between the audience and the ecosystem is a metaphorical reflection of the human-nature relationship. Each human individual is part of the unescapable interconnected ecosystem, co-existing and inter-influencing rather than being superior to other species.
THESIS FILM
EXHBITION FILM
RESEARCH
In order to inspire the public to understand the underestimated power of each individual human being in the understanding of our ecosystem, I tried to build an interactive space and create some new mechanical creatures with sensory powers.
Analysis
Global warming has been a hot topic of discussion in recent years. The atmosphere is the reservoir of the global carbon cycle and is the main cause of global warming due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In order to adapt to the ecological consequences of severe climate change, countries are called upon to reduce their carbon emissions in order to maintain sustainable development and preserve biodiversity.
What I want to do
Ecological art is defined by environmental scientist and artist Ruth (2012) as the application of ecosystem principles to living species and their habitats throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, seeking to protect, remediate or activate the planet's life forms, resources and ecology. As such, several scholars (David, 2009) have pointed to the important role of art in creating empathy to help restore the environment.
Initial Purpose
Through a large-scale art installation, people are transported into a new space and their awareness of the dangers of carbon emissions is deepened through a more immersive experience.
Reference
HygroScope
By Meteorosensitive Morphology.
The material in the device will deform in response to the humidity in the air, thus changing the form of the device. And the data on humidity in the air comes from visitors. The materials are physically programmed to give varying degrees of feedback to the environment, thus opening up a new way of thinking about ecological diving into architecture and into the environment in which humans live.
Open Columns
By Omar Khan
The interactive responsive architecture based on a CO2 sensor base is made of a material with deformable properties by means of a composite polyurethane elastomer through an inverted film and responds to the data collected by the CO2 sensor on the CO2 concentration content in the field. This leads to a consideration of the competition between organisms for limited gas resources in a limited space.
DESIGN HYPOTHESIS 1.0
INTERACTION SYSTEM 1.0
MECHANICAL STRUCTURE 1.0
Mathematical calculations to obtain the desired trajectory and twist angle -By Reuben Margolin
Prototype - power
Study of power gain, loss and transmission due to the connecting rod principle.
Combining an effective linkage structure with a main power structure.
Simulation of biological vocalisation by switching between physical materials, depending on the motor speed.
Cicada is making sound by contraction and relaxation of special musculature within the body.
Jerusalem crickets signalling by percussion of the substrate with the tip of the abdomen. materials, depending on the motor speed.
Describing sounds produced by frictional mechanisms. Such as crickets rugging their wings together
Cicada is making sound by contraction and relaxation of special musculature within the body.
Explore the possibilities of more shapes with the linkage structure.
It was even hoped that the arm parts would move, but that failed due to the power structure.
Testing Arduino for different motor speed and torque requirements
Design the location of the sensors and their installation, taking into account the power supply, the interactive experience of the audience and the load-bearing capacity of the installation.
DESIGN HYPOTHESIS 1.0
Planning the Bluetooth transmission signal of the installation, the location and distance of the sensors, taking into account the results of the presentation of the spatial interaction, as well as the interactive movement of the audience.
INTERACTION SYSTEM 2.0
Build a prototype with Arduino, test the sealing of the space, the angle and position of the sensors, and collect and record data via Bluetooth and a computer. Facilitates the calculation of data models at a later stage.
Select different test spaces and observe the effect between air speed and space size to determine the subsequent values for turning on the new air system.
Based on the statistical data the fluctuations in the values of the various gases in the presence of control variables are recorded, patterns are searched for and predictive models are calculated for use in routine states.
The relationship between CO2 concentration and wind speed. A fresh air system in the installation will help the CO2 concentration to decrease.
To test the effect of sensor location at different heights on value collection, height security sensors that can quickly capture changes in air quality were selected for a better interactive experience.
MECHANICAL STRUCTURE 2.0
Thompson, the famous biologist, who developed the theory of transformation, whereby by placing an organism on a coordinate system and changing that system, a new organism is obtained. Using this principle we combine cams and study new dynamical structures
Combination of cam and star engine power structure
Thompson's theory of deformation is implemented through parametric design to create more regular creatures on a base
The deformation is achieved by laser cutting and 3D printing technology and considers sensors built in.
Based on this principle we have implemented switching between the same type of creature and invisible power structures and sensors to make it more like a real creature.
The people in the exhibition are part of a whole collection of interactive data that invades an entire otherwise stable ecosystem, bringing about changes in ambient air quality and thus influencing a range of biological behaviours.
